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About the SWAG Dictionary

The SWAG Dictionary is a rich
interconnected vocabulary of terms for the Semantic Web that can be referred to by humans
(in XHTML form), SW
"bots" (in RDFS
format), and eventually SW browsers (in RDF form).

We hope to not only provide information on defined schemas like basic RDF, RDFS and DAML terms; the popular vocabularies
like DC and FOAF; but also to provide
an infrastructure for sharing completely new terms as they arise.

Purpose

The main purpose of the SWAG Dictionary is threefold:-

Provide rich semantic information on current SW terms

We basically take URIs and talk about them. This helps people who want to know:

a) what a certain URI means

b) which URI to use

Create interconnections between these terms

For this we add value by saying which terms are equal, which are similar, which are opposite, etc.

Provide a home for new terms

Here's where it starts getting creative.
New vocabularies which need a home can join with us and use our namespace.
We can also form our own vocabularies as needed. Since we're sharing
infrastructure, things get easier.

It is our hope that this project will be a major step in actually creating
the Semantic Web, by providing a vocubulary to use with our well established
grammar (RDF). Our terms can be used in both XML RDF,
and Notation3 RDF.